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Silicon Labs’ New 8051 Chips May Run Afoul of Luddites

by Jim Turley

When I was a kid, the garbage men would come into our backyard. Every week they’d park the big truck out front, hop down from the cab, let themselves in through the side gate, and walk around back to where our round metal garbage can waited on the porch outside the kitchen door. One burly man would hoist the can onto his shoulder; if we filled two cans that week, they’d both carry one. They’d retrace their steps, dump everything into the back of their big truck and make a final round trip to replace the empty can(s) on our back porch.  Read More


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What do you do when your application handles sensitive data and you don’t know what else is going on in the system? What if someone else snoops the data? Can you protect it? (16-Feb)

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After software, what's next?

During six-plus decades of adherence to the Turing paradigm, the computer field has reaped the benefits of ever- faster and -denser (and -reliable) hardware. Over the same span of decades, the creation and maintenance of software hasn’t gotten any easier ...

Posted on 01/27/12 at 2:53 PM by CharlieM

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Our apologies, but we have to temporarily turn on forum/comment moderation. It seems we have had a little bit of a spam attack. Rest assured that your posts and comments will be reviewed and posted as quickly as possible.

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Posted on 01/01/12 at 2:26 PM by kevin

Hybrid bus a ‘masterpiece of British engineering’

"A masterpiece of British engineering."

Now there's a phrase you don't hear much. wink

As the former owner of a Lotus, a Sunbeam, a Tiga, and a Crossle, I'm intimately familiar with British automotive engineering.

Seems doubtful these new double-...

Posted on 12/20/11 at 12:00 PM by Jim Turley

Smart Meters and Dumb Users

Wireman, you're right that the utility company *can* install any type of meter it wants to. The meter is its property. However, good customer relations dictate that you don't do something your customers don't like, regardless of whether their complaints a...

Posted on 12/20/11 at 11:56 AM by Jim Turley

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